Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

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Way, way back, a long time ago, when two-stroke engines were alive and loved, when I was young and brave, there it is again: the fine line between bravery and stupidity. Upon reflection, it was definitely the latter. As a 19-year-old Telecom apprentice, I suddenly found myself riding local Pubic transport, trains, and MTT buses, Pubic, sorry, I meant Public Transport, to get to work. Riding home from 'Telecoms Technical College', ha ha, on my most favored double uphill 'S'S' bend, I had crashed and burned my first Kawasaki Z1 900.
A fellow apprentice, Tony, offered me the use of his Suzuki Avenger. I had previously owned a Suzuki 550 triple Indy and had let Tony ride it. Anyway, a good mate came through for me, and all I can say is the 350 Avenger was a 'keeper' bike; it was a blast every time I rode it. Riding the Avenger, I was many times late for work. Mosman Park to East Perth via 'Kings Park' roads was a sensible detour in those days, what are they gonna do, fire me........ where did all the old 2 strokes go?
 
I must admit my LC350YPVS Yam was one of the most fun bikes to ride, you could be a real hooligan on it, but it wasn’t that uncontrollable that it got you in to too many dodgy situations. I often thought about upsizing to a 500 but a move to the IOM and then my TT crash put paid to that idea. I would still like to try one before I give up riding for good, but you don’t see that many about, but there must be quite a few sat in sheds somewhere.
 
Andy J said:
I must admit my LC350YPVS Yam was one of the most fun bikes to ride, you could be a real hooligan on it, but it wasn’t that uncontrollable that it got you in to too many dodgy situations. I often thought about upsizing to a 500 but a move to the IOM and then my TT crash put paid to that idea. I would still like to try one before I give up riding for good, but you don’t see that many about, but there must be quite a few sat in sheds somewhere.
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Probably a lot were thrown down the road too! Like a lot of bikes and cars that were popular to modify, the stock ones are worth a lot these days. The first parts removed for “tuning” are probably unobtainable now. How much would a stock exhaust system be today?
 
I rode an 350 LCYPVS in the IOM a few years ago, I swapped TOG with a journo, he was a Jap, as he realy wanted to ride TOG, I was impressed with the bike, but even more so when I found out that the journo owned it himself, and if you think about all the latest wiz bang rockets ships that he was riding on behalf of his magazine it says a lot, he also liked TOG and got off saying "blimey that ol thing has got some stomp". I have also riden a 500LC Yam and the ally framed ones as well YZLC? it was not the "TZ500 on the road" that I thought it was going to be, so later on, I built from parts, an ACTUAL TZ500G. the real thing, stupidly sold it in 1992 for £8,500 now worth 50K and yes I still want it back, or another.
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A good while back, one of the Sydney blokes bought one of these, exact same colour for $11k oz, so cheap. Last time I saw it was at a petrol station near Canberra Airport, heading to a bike show. I glanced at it as I walked past and saw a nondescript Jap Multi. Was I mistaken? Sadly, it got crashed on a Putty Club ride—no idea where it is now, I was so keen to buy it, such a stunning bike.BTW its an SB6 Bimota with the Red and Gunmetal gray paint job.

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Ernesto said:
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Its the Suzuki GT750 in the background will comment on, while nice it is an imagined form, Basic GT750J with incorrect colour scheme, owner must have had their reason, oem Candy apple looked best of all, even if i do own a GT750K in Blue. j.
 
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Its the Suzuki GT750 in the background will comment on, while nice it is an imagined form, Basic GT750J with incorrect colour scheme, owner must have had their reason, oem Candy apple looked best of all, even if i do own a GT750K in Blue. j.
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The H2 and GT 750’s in the similar purples were both horn.
 
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